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Monday, March 3, 2008

The Navy

Calif. coast panel files Navy sonar suitBy ALICIA CHANG, AP Science WriterLOS ANGELES - State coastal regulators and environmental groups separately sued the Navy on Thursday because of its decision to continue sonar training exercises off California without precautions opponents contend are necessary to protect marine life.Earlier this year, the California Coastal Commission approved the exercises during a two-year period only if the Navy took safeguards to protect marine mammals and sea turtles. Among the restrictions were avoiding coastal waters with a large whale and dolphin population and lowering sonar levels during periods of low visibility, when it's harder for ship personnel to spot sea life.The Navy sought the commission's approval for the training maneuvers, then said the commission lacked the authority to impose the restrictions.The commission contends federal law gives it the power to limit the Navy's exercises to comply with a state law that protects coastal and marine resources.The Navy periodically conducts sonar drills along the East Coast, the Gulf Coast, Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest to practice hunting submarines in nearshore waters.Critics contend sonar has harmful effects on whales, possibly by damaging their hearing, and other marine mammals worldwide. A congressional report last year found the Navy's sonar exercises have been blamed for at least six cases of mass death and stranding among whales in the past decade.The Navy has said factors including pollution and starvation can cause marine animals to be beached.Commissioner Sara Wan said the Navy's unwillingness to comply with the restrictions left the state with no choice but to file the federal lawsuit."The Navy cannot simply arm-wave away the entire body of evidence ... that sonar can harm and kill marine mammals," Wan said.The commission is seeking a preliminary injunction against future sonar drills until the Navy agrees to the commission's limitations."We're disappointed with the decision to pursue litigation on this," Vice Adm. Barry Costello, commander of the U.S. Third Fleet, said in Honolulu. "But we're doing our training that's essential to the Navy to support our armed forces and we'll go forward and work with all the appropriate players on these lawsuits."In a separate lawsuit, a coalition of environmental groups led by the Santa Monica-based Natural Resources Defense Council faulted the Navy for failing to prepare an environmental impact statement on the planned drills. It's the fifth time the NRDC has sued the Navy over the sonar issue.

About Aaron Donahue

Perhaps what is most disturbing about the democratic society of today could be that it allows for its majority to vote itself into oblivion and as required, without conscience.
Magickian, Occultist, Natural Born Psychic, Remote Viewer, Artist, Scientist, Musician, Theosopher, Anti-Christ, and Spiritual Projectionist:
1. Simply think of the right hemisphere of your forebrain, inhale and imagine a black space within the left as you exhale.
2. Now you must do the same with respect to the left hemisphere WITHOUT projecting a blackened area. This will help you become conscious of recognition and control.
3. After mastering this begin to write in reverse the English Cursive Letter "L" with the OPPOSITE hand and project the blackened area through out the entire brain. Next you must switch hands and repeat all the above until one recognizes spontaneity beyond that of ritual holding consciousness apart from what can be realized of the spirit world.